MP3.com executives must be in shock today as they learned that jurors who ordered the MP3 site to pay $300,000 to Tee Vee Toons Records have reevaluated their math and discovered what they really meant was $3 million. Privately owned Tee Vee Toons Records claimed that MP3.com's Instant Listening service violated TVT copyrights by making TVT songs available to Net surfers for listening online.

After seeing press releases and news stories about the case, jurors on the eight-woman panel told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the error in their calculations. "The total was supposed to be between two and three million. This matter is far from obvious in how it should be adjudicated," said Rakoff.

Rakoff called emergency hearing with the jurors and lawyers for MP3.com and Tee Vee Toons where he interviewed them in private and said he would issue a ruling in several weeks.